And when I search the current filesystem for anything named *lvm-iop* I get
nothing.

I have added the following to /etc/modules.conf

alias block-major-58 lvm-mod
alias char-major-109 lvm-mod

Since that didn't seem to work - I removed those RPMs and tried to download
the latest from ftp://ftp.sistina.com/pub/LVM/1.0/ and unpacked all
files. When I follow the instructions in the lvm-howto doc.. I run
LVM/1.0.1-rc4/configure script, which seems to complete fine.

I then cd into PATCHES and try to run 'make' and get the following error: